Let me tell you the story of emily there lived a young girl called carol
she was six years old and a very popular girl in school she was friendly and sweet and
everyone wanted to be friends with her one day a new girl called emily came into carol's class
she was a quiet and shy little girl she went and sat all by herself in the last row
carol who was sitting in the front row turned back at emily and smiled to make her feel comfortable
emily smiled back at her a little hesitant the teacher entered the class and began teaching
soon the bell rang and it was lunch break all the children got up and ran out into
the garden to play except emily carol was about to leave the classroom and she looked back and
saw emily sitting all alone looking out of the window carol went up to her and said hey
why don't you come and join us it's fun during the breaks we all play together come emily didn't know
if she really wanted to go out and play with the others she was feeling very shy in her new school
but carol would not leave her alone she pulled emily by her hand and ran out of the classroom
she took her out into the garden and brought her to her other friends
look we have a new friend everyone meet emily emily these are my friends
emily smiled shyly there was one boy in the group who did not smile back at emily he said no
i'm not going to play with her i am not playing if she is playing with us
saying this he stomped off emily started crying and she ran away from everyone carol was angry
with tim for his rude behavior so she made a plan and discussed it with her other friends
next day after class carol went out to play with her friends they took emily with them too but this
time they did not take tim along with them tim sat all by himself and watched everyone playing
together and having fun he felt really bad he thought to himself that's okay they'll want
me to play with them tomorrow the next day the same thing happened emily carol and all of their
other friends were playing together this time too without him tim was very angry with carol
for leaving him out he walked up to all of them and said how can you all start playing without me
now do you realize how emily must have felt when you chose not to play with her tim
realized his fault he apologized to emily and they all started playing together happily so it
is never a good feeling if people don't choose you we should always love everyone the same way
i am sorry gumbo i didn't want to hurt you you can take mine for now and i promise to get you another
one the next time take mine gumbo we're really very sorry take both the lollipops the holy tales
let me tell you a story and then you can eat the pie no why but i'm hungry
come on gumbo don't be so greedy first let me tell you the story
once there lived a little girl named jess she had a younger brother called william
they used to go to the same school
one day after coming back home from school they were very hungry they wanted to eat something
that morning their mother had baked a cake
they opened the refrigerator and saw there was just enough left for each one of them
to have a slice william slurped seeing the piece of cake he said
let's have the cake with some milk i'll slice the cake while you go get us two glasses of milk
just happily went to the kitchen to get two glasses of milk for them
william began to slice the cake but the slices were not equal in size one was
much larger than the other by now jess had come to the table with two glasses of milk
william brought the cake and placed a small slice in front of jess and he himself took the larger
piece what have you done you gave me the small slice of the cake and kept the bigger one for
yourself that is so mean i would have never given you the smaller piece instead i would
have taken the smaller piece and given the large piece to you no you would have never done that
of course i would have i would have thought about you first william felt bad he knew he
was being selfish jess was hungry too like him i am sorry jess here take some more from me
william cut a piece from his own slice of cake and gave it to jess jess hugged william
they both laughed and began eating their cakes and drank up the milk
so the moral of the story is that god is good and if he gives us more than what we need we
should share it with those who do not have much the holy tales and let us begin listening to the
story of rebecca the woman who relied on her own strength instead of trusting the lord completely
rebecca was the young wife of isaac and the mother of jacob and esau she was the daughter of bethel
when isaac was a young boy his father abraham was looking for a bride for isaac
so abraham sent one of his servants to the city of nahar to find a suitable bride for isaac
the servant looked everywhere in the city but did not find one he was tired and exhausted so he sat
near the well to rest while he rested he prayed to god that the next young woman who came to the well
and gave him water to drink will be the girl chosen as isaac's bride
as he prayed rebecca came to the well to get some water with a jar on her shoulder she saw the
servant tired and exhausted so she offered him and his camel some water to drink and some food to eat
immediately the servant knew that rebecca was the girl who god had sent to be isaac's wife
the servant brought rebecca to abraham and soon isaac and rebecca got married years went by but
rebecca and isaac had no children isaac prayed to god day in and day out without losing hope
soon god heard his prayers and blessed rebecca with twins jacob and esau jacob and esau were
the first twins mentioned in the bible even before they were born rebecca could feel the both of them
fighting inside her womb she prayed to god asking him the reason for the two brothers
fighting all the time to this god said rebecca you are going to give birth to two nations
they are both inside you right now and that's why they are at odds with one another
one shall be stronger than the other the older will serve the younger soon it was time for
rebecca to give birth esau was born first who grew up to become isaac's favorite son while jacob
was rebecca's in those days the practice was that the firstborn was always entitled to receive
birthright and since esau was born first he would have inherited the birthright this
saddened rebecca she loved jacob and wanted him to have it it was jacob who tricked his own brother
into selling him his birthright for a bowl of stew later when isaac grew old and he was on his
deathbed and could not see rebecca helped jacob to deceive isaac into blessing him instead of esau
she used goat skins on jacob's hands to imitate esau's hairy arms
years later a lot of things happened and esau was finally able to forgive jacob
when rebecca died she was buried in the family tomb a cave near mamor in canaan which was
also the resting place of abraham sarah and isaac later jacob was also buried in the same tomb that
was an amazing story holy thank you for telling us all about rebecca i'm glad you enjoyed it tubby
and now it's time for me to ask a question and time for you all to earn a brownie point
this is the most exciting part so tell me what was the name of the city where rebecca lived
before she got married to isaac i know she lived in a city called nahor that's correct
so freckles won today's brownie points i hope you did too until next time we'll be back soon bye-bye